Anti-Zionism

January 28, 2015 UN Human Rights Expert addresses LDB students at the UN

By: Kenny Liebowitz In the week leading up to the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the Louis D. Brandeis Center sought to expose and educate undergraduate and law students about the juncture between human rights and the Jewish people, within the United Nations. LDB arranged the unique opportunity […]

January 23, 2015 CFP: “Music as Resistance to Genocide” International Workshop — 26 October 2015, Los Angeles

We have received the following CALL FOR PAPERS which may interest our readers: International Workshop “Music as Resistance to Genocide” Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in collaboration with the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 26 October 2015, Los Angeles, CA The Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the USC […]

January 20, 2015 Moses, Mohammed, “Charlie Hebdo”—and Glenn Greenwald

Blogger Glenn Greenwald vicariously shares Edward Snowden’s immortality for publishing the NSA leaks that ultimately led the ideologically-confused Snowden to become an intelligence asset of Vlad Putin. Not satisfied with this second-hand claim to fame, Greenwald then took it upon himself to repackage Snowden’s embarrassing revelations about the U.S. intelligence services into a bizarre expose […]

Anti-Zionism

January 20, 2015 University of Chicago and Free Speech on Campus

Earlier this month, the University of Chicago released a praiseworthy update to its policy on freedom of speech. The policy protects free academic discourse and speakers’ rights to address controversial topics, while also setting forth principles about students’ responsibilities to respect guest speakers and fellow students, and about the University’s need to prevent disruptions to […]

January 18, 2015 The French-Jewish Exodus

From Scott Ott, “Exodus Chart: Shocking Graph Shows French Jews Fleeing to Israel in Historic Numbers” in PJ Media.

January 16, 2015 LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus to Address The StandWithUS Anti-BDS Conference

In response to readers’ questions, you may register for the event at this page of the StandWithUs website.

January 12, 2015 Brandeis University, Daniel Mael, and Freedom of Speech

As the Washington Free Beacon reports, and as others have reported here and here, Brandeis University issued a “No Contact Order” (NCO) to student journalist and outspoken Israel-supporter Daniel Mael last week, which would have restricted his movements on campus. This order, which was immediately revoked this past Friday following an intense media outcry, comes […]

January 2, 2015 The Brandeis Center Holds Second Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference

The Brandeis Center hosted its second National Law Student Leadership Conference in Washington, DC on December 29-30. This event took place as part of the Center’s recent law student and public outreach initiatives. Many of the students in attendance were members of their universities’ chapters of the Brandeis Center. Our law student chapter program fills […]

December 21, 2014 “Trans-Tolerance,” Israeli-Style?

In the 1950s in the volume, “The Radical Right,” Peter Viereck coined the concept of “trans-tolerance” not to praise but to put down American Christians and Jews who crossed sectarian lines and abstained from religious prejudice in order to raise a common banner for—not against—Senator Joe McCarthy. In other words, you did not have to […]

Anti-Zionism

December 21, 2014 Federalism for the Holy Land?

The NYT is ending 2014 with an editorial—“The Embattled Dream for Palestine” (December 19)—rehearsing the nightmarish political impasse and putting all the blame, as per usual, on Israel. This time the fall guys are Israeli “one state” rightwingers who want to extinguish the dream of Palestinian peoplehood. No mention that Palestinian “one staters” like Hamas […]

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